The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, 1993
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- Title
- The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style
- Author
- Barth, George
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801424119
- ISBN 13
- 9780801424113
Dealing with Beethoven's solo and chamber keyboard works, Barth builds his evaluation on a critique of musical timekeeping and eighteenth-century descriptions of music's character, focusing especially on musicians who contributed to Beethoven's unique heritage. He selects for special consideration the writings of Johann Mattheson, who established the art of gesture as the basis for musical rhetoric; Emmanuel Bach, whose influential work helped emancipate rhetorical theory from the confines of enlightened French rationalism; and Johann Philipp Kirnberger, who applied the theory to levels below the musical surface. Turning, then, to descriptions of Beethoven's playing and his use of the metronome, the author examines the bitter dispute concerning tempo and musical character that arose among Beethoven's followers after his death, a dispute that has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of his interpreters. The clash between the two disciples, Anton Schindler and Carl Czerny, is revelatory, Barth maintains, because it stems from Beethoven's greatest achievement - a musical language that fused old and new.
Rounding out his book, he provides several discerning analyses, including an interpretation of tempo, gesture, and articulation in the Sonata in F major for pianoforte and violoncello, opus 5, no. 1, and a study of tempo flexibility in the Variations on an Original Theme, opus 34.
The Pianist as Orator will provide stimulating reading for music theorists and historians of the classical and Romantic periods, as well as for music teachers and performers - professional and amateur alike.
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